🏈 I’m crying. "He's dumb, but he's fast."

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[alabama mike]

Ole Dabo was a wide receiver back in the day. Still has some speed.

 

[mando]

Dabo going to pull a muscle .

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Love dabo....got spunk

 

[rammerjammer]

Once a gump..........always a gump!!

 

[rick4bama]

Touching the butt too!

 

[TerryP]

Once a gump..........always a gump!!

In the same sense DuBose and Croom are still 'gumps?'

Running down the hill in Clemson's Death Valley is one of their best traditions: "The Clemson football team takes the field!"

How much of this is about the team taking the field? Or, better asked, how much of this is about Dabo?

 

[Davestwin]

I used to be a big fan but Dabo became a bit too arrogant after 2 NC’s then Clemson fell off somewhat and began whining a bit too much for me … especially lately.

 

[rammerjammer]

In the same sense DuBose and Croom are still 'gumps?'

If we can forgive Brother Oliver and consider him a gump still..........then without a doubt, yeah, they still gumps.

 

[TerryP]

If we can forgive Brother Oliver and consider him a gump still..........then without a doubt, yeah, they still gumps.

Oliver fits. It was all about him in the summer of '95. Nice analogy.

 

[TerryP]

If we can forgive Brother Oliver and consider him a gump still..........then without a doubt, yeah, they still gumps.

Changing the subject a bit here.

Do you "forgive" Croom and DuBose?

 

[rammerjammer]

Croom a lot more so than Dubose. In all honesty, I think the success Bama has experienced under Saban makes it easier to forgive these guys.

I honestly feel that Dubose thought he was ready, but absolutely crumbled under the pressure of trying to please everyone. It is like the famous saying that Stallings had. When you start listening to the fans, it won't be long before you are one of them.

I think Dubose had some administrative issues. (Not the secretary kind either). Dubose didn't know how to handle all the fluff that comes with being a coach. Donors/Alum. Delegating to your coaches and making sure that this is not a democracy, it is dictatorship and I'm the head dick. If you don't like doing it my way, then go somewhere else. Last but not least, University administration. For him, it was a perfect storm of everything coming unraveled.

Had a patient (can not remember his name) that had worked in the athletic office for many years. He swore up and down to me that Dubose was set up by the power people with the secretary ordeal. For lack of a better term, politics, in order to have him over a barrel.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Mike Price, Dennis Franchione, NOT GUMPS> Just Sayin

 

[TerryP]

Croom a lot more so than Dubose.

One, the latter, put Alabama on probation. The other tried to get Bama in trouble with the NCAA by turning UA in for the width of a media guide.

Personally, if an individual is trying to get UA in trouble? For something as trivial as the width of a tab?

Hell, let's bring Neil Calloway in and his lawsuit against UA after he'd been fired for the "Dubosian era." He played at Bama as well but doesn't fit "gump" in my view.

 

[rammerjammer]

Hell, let's bring Neil Calloway in and his lawsuit against UA after he'd been fired for the "Dubosian era." He played at Bama as well but doesn't fit "gump" in my view.

He was an assistant at Auburn for quite a while. I remember Finebaum getting wore out by Pat Dye about Calloway and his ability to coach/not coach. One of the many times Pat Dye gave Finebaum an ear full and hung up on him.

"You might know about running a radio program and writing a newspaper article, but you don't know a damn thing about coaching.........click."

 

[TerryP]

He was an assistant at Auburn for quite a while. I remember Finebaum getting wore out by Pat Dye about Calloway and his ability to coach/not coach. One of the many times Pat Dye gave Finebaum an ear full and hung up on him.

We're chalking that one up to "the time Paul was right?"

(I'd take Calloway over Connelly every day of the week.)

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

We could start a thread, "Gump" Or "Not a Gump". Although the definition is not something I would brag about. HAHAHA

 

[TerryP]

We could start a thread, "Gump" Or "Not a Gump". Although the definition is not something I would brag about. HAHAHA

Now you're opening the door for the Tier's of "Gumpness."

 

[18Champs]

Now you're opening the door for the Tier's of "Gumpness."

Tiers of being a Gump? Whatever do you mean?

 

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